Fall 2020/Winter 2021 Finals & Intersession
Your librarians miss seeing you at the Library with our finals activities, but we hope this guide provides some means to take a break and Stress Less, at least a little bit, in December and throughout January.
Stress Less with Library Pets!
Submit your email address or the email address of someone you know who needs a lift on the Message from the Library Pets form between December 10-17 to get a special message of support from the Library staff’s cats and dogs during the week of December 14, 2020.
Take a minute from thinking about your finals with the distractions provided below:
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Word games
- Sudoku
- Coloring
- Digital escape rooms
- White noise apps
- Remote games to play with your friends
- And more!
Many thanks to the Stevens Archives & Special Collections for providing the coloring sheets and archival jigsaw puzzles included here.
The Library wishes you good luck and good health.
Neat!
Fun things for a quick mental break.
Juno's Eighth Close Approach to Jupiter (from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Photojournal)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran, 2017-09-08
Look
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Barry Martin's Hopalong Orbits VisualizerExplore the designs and patterns as you orbit the environment.
CAUTION: visualizer moves quickly and in circles, avoid if that kind of thing messes with you. -
Earth: An Animated Map of Global Wind and WeatherEarth.nullschool.net, created by Cameron Beccario, is a beautiful and everchanging visualization of global weather conditions, ocean surface current estimates, ocean waves and surface temperatures, and aurora, forecast by NOAA supercomputers and updated regularly.
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High-Performance ParticlesWhat do 100,000 interacting particles look like? This.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Photojournal (NASA)Images and animations captured by space exploration programs and released by the Jet Propulsion Library (at the California Institute of Technology).
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The Pattern LibraryPatterns! Pick one to use on your computer or just explore the endless collection.
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Things Organized NeatlyThis blog is a soothing balm for the stressed mind.
Listen
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LocalingualLanguages and dialects from around the world, pronounced by the people who live there. Listen to the speakers of the regions, or contribute your own!
Miscellany
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The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and WordsThe elements plus what they do and where they're used.
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Essay TyperWill write an essay on any topic! Try to trick it!
NOTE: NOT TO BE USED FOR AN ACTUAL ASSIGNMENT. This is a toy, not a means to cheat.